OK, here we have it: Bill Gates himself admits that Microsoft is like the big pharmacy companies: 5 % R&D expenses, 95 % marketing expenses, and completely inflated prices.
You don't need to do that to start a C++ project. I don't know where you have that kind of prejudice or stereotype, but in all the C++ projects that I was involved in, such things never were an issue. In theory, such issues would probably come up with basically every programming language, but in practice (at least in my experience), people are mature enough to stop behaving like some programming.reddit.com pussies, and simply get things done.
Hello Mr. n00b, you can fulfill agile requirements in any programming language. And, no, "shipping code in a hurry", as you put it, is not agile, absolutely not. It's more the Dilbert version of agile development.
Please, not this again! Why do we bother having elections at all if they couldn't possibly deviate from "scientific polls"?
One question: statistical methods to predict the outcome of elections, have worked pretty well, especially exit polls. Why do those methods suddenly stop working as soon as voting computers are introduced?
First of all, not contributing them towards the libc's is sociopathic behaviour
DJB's routines aren't standardized in any way, so such a contribution them to glibc most likely would be reject. If you really need those routines, there are several libraries that extracted that code and/or reimplemened it.
Second, their technical superiority even from a security perspective is no longer there.
Well, I do call functions that return a defined error instead of crashing "technically superior from a security perspective". See next paragraph.
Libc has moved on and even the worst of them (HPUX and Irix) are now at the same level of the DJB replacements (or better).
No. From a security perspective, virtually nothing has changed, due to standardization. E.g. strncpy() still has those completely braindead semantics, strlcpy() still has neither been standardized nor introduced into most libc implementation. Any of the libc string function can be expected to crash when given NULL pointers (and this kind of behaviour is even specified!), so in the end, most people work around the deficiencies of those standard functions by wrapping them with their own functions that add a saner behaviour, they add hundreds of "if (ptr != NULL)..." statements in place or they write their own routines.
No. It's a canula as soon as it's hollow. A hypodermic "needle" is just a special type of canula. And after all, luer tapers are pretty much standardized, and thus, canulae can be attached to both IVs and syringes.
So you tell me that Copper(I) oxide and Copper(II) oxide (which both contain Copper atoms) aren't molecules? Oh, BTW, before you an even greater fool of yourself, I can tell you that the only class of substances where "there are no molecules" are noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon) because they are the only atoms with a full valence electron shell, and thus don't form chemical bonds.
Copper cables are always oxygen-free. Copper that is not oxygen-free is called Copper oxide, aka patina. And even a layer of patina protects the rest of the copper from oxidizing.
IMHO, everybody who has developed sites for their mobile portal and had contact with Vodafone's PartnerML should know that Vodafone has always been weird on the technical side when it comes to WAP and mobile web.
I once worked together with people from Vodafone Europe. One of them told me that one of his colleagues went on a business trip from England to Germany, and along the way, he tried out how good UMTS video streaming works in Germany, and so he watched an entire football (soccer, for US Americans) game via video streaming. The phone bill (it was a company phone) was at about £ 5000 when he returned home...
As we know from the Linux/SCO trials, header files can't be copyrighted. That's why it's irrelevant whether the GPL clause shows in the ath5k.h file or not.
The writings of Flavius Josephus mention Jesus. There are several versions of these scripts, and some have been edited to contain things such as "He was the Messiah". Latest research was able to identify what was modified, and the conclusion was that Jesus and his followers are mentioned, but not that he was described as the Messiah by Flavius Josephus.
BTW, I'm an Atheist, so I don't believe that Jesus was some kind of supernatural deity or the son of a supernatural deity, but from what I learned so far, the account of Flavius Josephus seems pretty authentic.
This smells like a hidden advertisment for "Web Performance Inc.". Now somebody please tell me why I should trust the results produced by a relatively unknown product and company, and not stick to proven tools like Borland SilkPerformer or Mercury Loadrunner.
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OK, here we have it: Bill Gates himself admits that Microsoft is like the big pharmacy companies: 5 % R&D expenses, 95 % marketing expenses, and completely inflated prices.
You don't need to do that to start a C++ project. I don't know where you have that kind of prejudice or stereotype, but in all the C++ projects that I was involved in, such things never were an issue. In theory, such issues would probably come up with basically every programming language, but in practice (at least in my experience), people are mature enough to stop behaving like some programming.reddit.com pussies, and simply get things done.
Hello Mr. n00b, you can fulfill agile requirements in any programming language. And, no, "shipping code in a hurry", as you put it, is not agile, absolutely not. It's more the Dilbert version of agile development.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita
I'll add the RSS feedreader newsbeuter to that list (OK, I'm biased...).
Am I the only that was instantly reminded of Kinder Surprise eggs when reading the headline?
Reading the article? THIS IS SLASHDOT!!!!!!1!
DJB's routines aren't standardized in any way, so such a contribution them to glibc most likely would be reject. If you really need those routines, there are several libraries that extracted that code and/or reimplemened it.
Well, I do call functions that return a defined error instead of crashing "technically superior from a security perspective". See next paragraph.
No. From a security perspective, virtually nothing has changed, due to standardization. E.g. strncpy() still has those completely braindead semantics, strlcpy() still has neither been standardized nor introduced into most libc implementation. Any of the libc string function can be expected to crash when given NULL pointers (and this kind of behaviour is even specified!), so in the end, most people work around the deficiencies of those standard functions by wrapping them with their own functions that add a saner behaviour, they add hundreds of "if (ptr != NULL)
No. It's a canula as soon as it's hollow. A hypodermic "needle" is just a special type of canula. And after all, luer tapers are pretty much standardized, and thus, canulae can be attached to both IVs and syringes.
should be "...may replace canulas" (canulae?). A needle is something you use for sewing, but you use a canula for an injection.
Bwhahahaha. If Copper oxide is not a molecule, what do the empirical formulae CuO or Cu_{2}O then describe? Idiot.
So you tell me that Copper(I) oxide and Copper(II) oxide (which both contain Copper atoms) aren't molecules? Oh, BTW, before you an even greater fool of yourself, I can tell you that the only class of substances where "there are no molecules" are noble gases (Helium, Neon, Argon, Krypton, Xenon, Radon) because they are the only atoms with a full valence electron shell, and thus don't form chemical bonds.
Copper cables are always oxygen-free. Copper that is not oxygen-free is called Copper oxide, aka patina. And even a layer of patina protects the rest of the copper from oxidizing.
Everybody busy reading TFA?
IMHO, everybody who has developed sites for their mobile portal and had contact with Vodafone's PartnerML should know that Vodafone has always been weird on the technical side when it comes to WAP and mobile web.
% ls -l cat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ak ak 1948 2007-09-17 16:46 cat
% cat -h
cat: usage: cat [-vsetu] [filename...]
%
"cat" from embutils, _statically_ linked against dietlibc. Beat that.
I once worked together with people from Vodafone Europe. One of them told me that one of his colleagues went on a business trip from England to Germany, and along the way, he tried out how good UMTS video streaming works in Germany, and so he watched an entire football (soccer, for US Americans) game via video streaming. The phone bill (it was a company phone) was at about £ 5000 when he returned home...
As we know from the Linux/SCO trials, header files can't be copyrighted. That's why it's irrelevant whether the GPL clause shows in the ath5k.h file or not.
Also, where is it established that a 35-hr. work schedule makes for greater productivity?
Long-term studies in countries such as France and Germany. Google is your friend.
No, nationalrevolution.net is _not_ really a trustworthy source...
The writings of Flavius Josephus mention Jesus. There are several versions of these scripts, and some have been edited to contain things such as "He was the Messiah". Latest research was able to identify what was modified, and the conclusion was that Jesus and his followers are mentioned, but not that he was described as the Messiah by Flavius Josephus.
BTW, I'm an Atheist, so I don't believe that Jesus was some kind of supernatural deity or the son of a supernatural deity, but from what I learned so far, the account of Flavius Josephus seems pretty authentic.
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This smells like a hidden advertisment for "Web Performance Inc.". Now somebody please tell me why I should trust the results produced by a relatively unknown product and company, and not stick to proven tools like Borland SilkPerformer or Mercury Loadrunner.
Apparently, this topic has been discussed on /. before, and the most intriguing tool I became aware then was minit (http://www.fefe.de/minit/). Here's a nice posting about its most important properties: http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=808 17&cid=7115996